Sentences with phrase «percent more miles»

Even if you're just looking to rack up United miles as quickly as possible, this card is a good way to go, as you get 50 percent more miles on everyday purchases than you get with your average co-branded airline credit card, including the United MileagePlus Explorer card.

During the peak season, it charges 50 percent more miles.

Drivers logged 2.2 percent more miles than in 2015, and there are now 1.18 fatalities for every 100 million vehicle miles traveled, says NHTSA.

City vehicles logged 102 million miles on the road in the last fiscal year, which ended in June, 25 percent more miles than in 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio's first year in office.

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city's municipal vehicle fleet logged 102 million miles on the road in the last fiscal year, 25 percent more miles than in 2014, the mayor's first year in office.

FUEL ECONOMY - Diesels can get up to 30 percent more miles per gallon of fuel than similar gas powered cars and can be more economical than gasoline - electric hybrids.

Not exact matches

That's down three points from 2015, when 56 percent of respondents reported not having taken a vacation in a year and 41 percent admitted to having not been on a leisure trip of at least a week to a place 100 miles or more from home in more than two years.

A 2015 survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. employees conducted by Quantum Workplace and Limeade found that respondents were 38 percent more engaged and 18 percent more likely to go the extra mile when they felt their employers cared about their well - being.

But among companies that did any testing on public roads, Tesla reported the lowest number of miles — 550, or more than 99 percent fewer than Waymo reported — and a relatively high number of disengagements, 182.

Jimmy John's noncompete clause reportedly states: «Employee covenants and agrees that, during his or her employment with the Employer and for a period of two (2) years after... he or she will not have any direct or indirect interest in or perform services for... any business which derives more than ten percent (10 %) of its revenue from selling submarine, hero - type, deli - style, pita and / or wrapped or rolled sandwiches and which is located with three (3) miles of either [the Jimmy John's location in question] or any such other Jimmy John's Sandwich Shop.»

Run no more than one barefoot mile a day, every other day, and then gradually increase your barefoot mileage by 10 percent per week.

More importantly, it afforded batters the ability to produce ball exit speeds between 100 and 103 miles per hour, roughly 10 mph quicker than possible with most aluminum bats, which was already roughly 10 percent quicker than a wood bat.

Thirty - nine percent of Forest Grove's members are from the Barrington area, Schwartz said, and more than 20 fitness centers already exist within an 8 - mile radius of Good Shepherd's proposed building, including the Buehler YMCA in Palatine.

If your own kids can sniff out a fry from a mile away, though, rest assured that you're not alone — 76 percent of BabyCenter parents say they rely on fast food a few times a month or more.

«I ask Tim Wu to walk a mile in my shoes — to have a 100 - percent pro-choice record in the most Republican district in the state of New York takes a little more than sending out tweets,» she said.

That would include the opening of a similar «full - service» casino within a 65 - mile radius of Aqueduct or if Resorts World's gambling revenue drops by 10 percent or more.

The third track, first discussed 68 years ago, is expected to allow the LIRR to run more trains in both directions, increasing capacity on a 9.8 - mile rail stretch between Floral Park and Hicksville used by 40 percent of LIRR passengers.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

NASA researchers have their own plan, the Near - Earth Object Program — the agency's program to spot 90 percent of all potentially hazardous asteroids more than two - thirds of a mile wide that might hit Earth in the foreseeable future.

What's more, although flood - insurance maps drawn by the federal government beginning in 1983 determined that 33 square miles of land in New York City remained at risk of a one - in -100-year flood, Sandy resketched the maps and proved that, in fact, a remarkable 51 square miles of land — 17 percent of the city — was in jeopardy.

On April 27, as the U.S. Coast Guard worked with BP engineers to guide remote control submarines nearly a mile underwater in a futile effort to close a shut - off valve, BP told investors that its quarterly earnings were up more than 100 percent over the last year, beating expectations by a large margin.

FACT: Fifty - two percent of national forests are logged, mined, and crisscrossed by more than 373,000 miles of roads, enough to circle Earth 14 times.

The agency is working with developer Apex Clean Energy to meet 100 percent of Fort Hood's electricity needs with onsite solar PV panels that are complemented by additional energy wired in from a wind farm in Floyd County, more than 300 miles northwest of the facility.

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

Eighty percent of runners land here, hitting a three - to four - square - inch area 800 or more times every mile with a force of up to three times their body weight.

After the initial explosion and uncontained release of oil, researchers observed a phenomenon that had not been seen before: More than 40 percent of the oil, combined with an introduced chemical dispersant, was retained in a plume nearly 100 miles long at this great depth.

For more than 20 percent of the trips, the technique predicted the final destination within a little less than one - third of a mile from the actual endpoint.

These youngsters also suffered from asthma at significantly higher rates — those living within a quarter of a mile from a freeway had an 89 percent higher risk of asthma than kids more than a mile away.

Hill found that the babies born to mothers within 2.5 kilometers (a little over 1.5 miles) of drilled gas sites were 25 percent more likely to have low birth weight compared to those in non-drilled areas.

Thirty - six percent of counties were located more than 50 miles from the closest gynecologic oncologist, affecting 14.8 million women.

At 43 pixels wide, the new images are more than 30 percent higher in resolution than those taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 and 2004 at a distance of over 150 million miles (about 241 million kilometers).

For that, you'll have to travel to the Pantanal in Brazil, where 80 percent of its more than 55,000 square miles flood in the rainy season.

In 2012, the year in which Arctic sea ice hit a record low, 69 percent of the tracked adult females in the Beaufort Sea swam more than 31 miles (50 kilometers) at least once.

The research team found that infants born within a half a mile from a fracking site were 25 percent more likely to be born at low birth weights, leaving them at greater risk of infant mortality, ADHD, asthma, lower test scores, lower schooling attainment and lower lifetime earnings.

Children living within two miles of the Ship Channel have a 56 percent higher risk for childhood leukemia than those living more than 10 miles away, according to one study.

Although one of the researchers always sat with his hands just inches from the wheel, Ralph handled more than 98 percent of the 2,500 highway miles in the journey, at an average speed of 63 miles an hour.

The study, published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that counties where the distance to the nearest facility increased 100 miles or more saw a 50 percent decline in abortions.

In the last 50 years, the Sahara, in Africa, which accounts for 8 percent of the world's land area, has grown by more than 250,000 square miles.

The most significant impacts were seen among babies born within.6 miles of a site, as those babies were 25 percent more likely to be low birth weight, that is born under 5.5 pounds.

In addition, approximately 17 percent of women travel more than 50 miles to obtain an abortion.

For instance, a nearly 1 percent average annual death rate for the Soviet Union during World War II versus near zero for India had more to do with India lying thousands of miles away from major theaters of war than population sizes, he argues.

By comparison, in the new study, children with mothers who lived less than one mile from fields treated with organophosphate pesticides during pregnancy were about 60 percent more likely to have autism than children whose mothers did not live close to treated fields.

The North Bay Fires affected air quality in the Central Valley and satellite images show it traveled more than 500 miles over the Pacific, reaching as far south as Mexico.19 In 2015, smoke from wildfires in central Canada resulted in multiple days of exceedances of EPA standards in Maryland.20 In 2002, wildfire smoke from fires in Quebec impacted populations all along the East Coast of the United States, and a nearly 50 percent increase in hospital admissions for respiratory diagnoses for the elderly was associated with the smoke plume and concurrent PM2.5 in counties in states between New York and Washington, DC.21

The core of the star, with 40 percent more mass than our Sun, collapses under its own gravity to a sphere only about 10 miles in diameter, composed mostly of neutrons.

In Brazil, which houses 30 percent of the remaining tropical rain forest on Earth, more than 50,000 square miles of rain forest were lost to deforestation between 2000 and 2005.

During the height of the California drought that began in late 2011, Los Angeles imported 89 percent of its water from more than 200 miles away — an energy - intensive process.

In 2013, researchers determined that one massive black hole measuring more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) across was spinning at around 84 percent of the speed of light [source: Fazekas].

We've found more than 95 percent of the 1 - kilometer [0.6 - miles] or larger asteroids that could truly be very hazardous to civilization.

For every 1 percent of grade, you increase your calories burned by about 12 percent or about 10 more calories per mile for a 150 - pound person.